Gendering the Field  : Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities

Lahiri‐Dutt, Kuntala

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“…At best, gender-sensitive employment and training policies can begin to challenge the masculine culture of the mining industry. The gendered implications of resource extraction, however, extend far beyond unequal access to highly paid employment, influencing traditional harvesting activities, family stability, and community life (Lahiri-Dutt, 2011;Czyzewski et al, 2014). Indigenous women therefore have ample reason to be concerned about resource development in their territories.…”

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“…Second, Indigenous communities are not undifferentiated wholes: marginalized groups within communities often experience greater negative impacts from development. Feminist scholars have noted that women in particular are differentially negatively affected by resource development (Kurian, 2000;Mayes and Pini, 2010;Lahiri-Dutt, 2011). Few studies to date have adopted a gendered analysis of Indigenous participation in EAs (Stevenson, 1996;O'Faircheallaigh, 2011).…”

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Gendering Environmental Assessment: Women’s Participation and Employment Outcomes at Voisey’s Bay

Cox¹,

Mills²

2015

ARCTIC

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ABSTRACT. This paper examines the effect of Inuit and Innu women's participation in environmental assessment (EA) processes on EA recommendations, impact benefit agreement (IBA) negotiations, and women's employment experiences at Voisey's Bay Mine, Labrador. The literature on Indigenous participation in EAs has been critiqued for being overly process oriented and for neglecting to examine how power influences EA decision making. In this regard, two issues have emerged as critical to participation in EAs: how EA processes are influenced by other institutions that may help or hinder participation and whether EAs enable marginalized groups within Indigenous communities to influence development outcomes. To address these issues we examine the case of the Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine in Labrador, in which Indigenous women's groups made several collective submissions pertaining to employment throughout the EA process. We compare the submissions that Inuit and Innu women's groups made to the EA panel in the late 1990s to the final EA recommendations and then compare these recommendations to employment-related provisions in the IBA. Finally we compare IBA provisions to workers' perceptions of gender relations at the mine in 2010. Semi-structured interviews revealed that, notwithstanding the recommendations by women's groups concerning employment throughout the EA process, women working at the site experienced gendered employment barriers similar to those experienced by women in mining elsewhere. We suggest that the ineffective translation of EA submissions into EA regulations and the IBA, coupled with persistent masculinity within the mining industry, weakened the effect of women's requests for a comprehensive program to hire and train Indigenous women.Key words: EA; IBA; impact benefit agreement; resource development; women; Aboriginal; environmental assessment; employment RÉSUMÉ. Dans cet article, nous nous penchons sur la participation des femmes inuites et innues aux processus d'évaluations environnementales (EE) et sur l'effet de cette participation sur les recommandations des EE, les négociations relatives à l'entente sur les répercussions et les avantages (ERA) et les expériences de travail à la mine de la baie Voisey, au Labrador. La documentation portant sur la participation indigène aux EE fait l'objet de critiques, en ce sens qu'elle accorderait trop d'importance aux processus et pas suffisamment à l'examen de la manière dont le pouvoir influence les décisions prises dans le cadre des EE. Dans cette optique, deux questions critiques se posent par rapport à la participation aux EE : la manière dont les processus des EE sont influencés par d'autres institutions susceptibles de favoriser la participation ou de lui nuire, et à savoir si les EE permettent aux groupes marginalisés à l'intérieur des communautés indigènes d'influencer les résultats des projets d'exploitation. Pour approfondir ces questions, nous avons examiné le cas de la mine d'exploitation du nickel de la baie Voisey au Labrador, pour lequel des groupe...

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Gendering Environmental Assessment: Women’s Participation and Employment Outcomes at Voisey’s Bay

Cox¹,

Mills²

2015

ARCTIC

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“…Creating sustainable livelihoods for women is important and was deemed as a way forward in resource development regions. Concepts such as sustainable livelihoods abound in the present day Sustainable Development (SD) literature (see Krantz, 2001;Lahiri-Dutt, 2013). While the notion of SD owes its origins to environmental activists in the 19th century, in the contemporary era, this is viewed as a broad term encompassing a wide range of social, economic, environmental and political elements (Dresner, 2008, p. 19).…”

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Extractives and Sustainable Community Development: A Comparative Study of Women’s Livelihood Assets in the Americas

Franco¹,

Kunkel²

2017

IJSSS

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The world has experienced a rapid growth in the mining industry due to increased demand for minerals. However, this situation has given rise to complexities in resource regions, compromising how women sustain their livelihoods. With increasing deregulation and globalization of the world economy, the livelihoods of women in resource-rich regions deserve special attention. Women in communities adjacent to extractive operations commonly experience a loss of livelihood options. Using case studies, this paper compares the livelihoods of women in two resource regions, Risaralda in Colombia and an Indigenous community in Nemiah Valley of British Columbia in Canada. This paper argues that the extractive industry should engage with women to enhance their assets and help them forge more sustainable livelihood options. The paper also makes recommendations to stakeholders on how livelihood assets can be enhanced to benefit women in resource development regions.

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“…Historical and contemporary debates (Akosua, 2010; Boone, 2018; Cornwall, 2007; Lahiri-Dutt, 2011; Perera, 2014) postulate that comparatively women suffer more hardships from dislocation caused by development essentially because of insecure land tenure, often dictated by cultural dispositions. Cases of unfair treatment of women during the sharing of development benefits, such as compensation, have been widely reported (Huu Pham et al, 2013; Perera, 2014).…”

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Unravelling the Centrality of Tenure Security in Determining Resettlement Packages for Oil Refinery Displaced Persons in Uganda’s Albertine Graben

2019

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This paper investigates the role of tenure security in defining resettlement packages for oil refinery displaced communities of the Kabaale parish. The parish is located in the Buseruka sub-county, Hoima district in western Uganda. Descriptive and explorative designs employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to enlist data from 48 displaced households as well as key informants. Customary land tenure is not fully acknowledged as legitimate, and thus customary landowners were not fairly treated as compared to those whose land was formally registered under freehold tenure. It was found that women and other secondary land rights owners were unfairly treated in the resettlement packages. We concluded that customary tenure security ought to be enhanced through the acquisition of certificates of customary ownership and that local communities should be sensitised to respect women’s land rights.

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Gendering the Field : Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities

Cited by 46 publications

References 59 publications

Gendering Environmental Assessment: Women’s Participation and Employment Outcomes at Voisey’s Bay

Gendering Environmental Assessment: Women’s Participation and Employment Outcomes at Voisey’s Bay

Extractives and Sustainable Community Development: A Comparative Study of Women’s Livelihood Assets in the Americas

Unravelling the Centrality of Tenure Security in Determining Resettlement Packages for Oil Refinery Displaced Persons in Uganda’s Albertine Graben

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